Calvin's clothes were stained all over with elemental beast blood, and he smelled of it as well. He couldn't exactly take the shower he wanted at home to wash everything off because Martha would notice, and then he'd have to explain why his clothes and the laundry smelled of blood."Then why don't you come shower at my house instead?" Ashley suggested casually.Calvin thought about it for a few seconds before deciding to agree.If Ashley's father was going to be involved in that little business plan he'd come up with to sell information through his connections, then he was going to have to meet the man eventually, so he figured he might as well do it now.With that, the driver started the engine, and the car slowly pulled away from the construction site before merging onto the city's night roads.Neither Calvin nor Ashley spoke after leaving.Calvin leaned back against the seat and pulled his phone from his pocket before connecting one earbud, scrolling through his playlist until he f

The moment Calvin walked back inside his classroom, everyone's eyes turned toward him.They were all curious about why the strict head teacher had called him to her office and wondered whether she'd reprimanded him for something. However, Calvin looked exactly the same as before, with nothing about him appearing any different.Seeing how unbothered he looked made Tom frown lightly.'Is he just pretending everything's fine?'A moment later, he recalled what he'd seen and heard the previous day before shaking his head.'No, he's definitely pretending! There's no way that strict head teacher wouldn't have said something about this.'Confident in that conclusion, Tom leaned back in his chair, rested his legs on the table, and smirked."Well, well, well. Look at you acting like nothing happened."Calvin glanced at him from the corner of his eye, and Tom raised his voice even louder as he continued."You've really got some ner

The rest of the school day was largely uneventful, and after school ended, Calvin quietly headed home while looking through his phone to check the latest news that had been released to the public regarding the previous day's incident. Leaning against the bus window, he opened his browser, and as soon as he did, he saw a suggested headline about the deputy governor's sudden resignation. ‘Looks like they've begun, huh?’ He was about to open the article to see what had been disclosed to the public when a notification suddenly appeared. It was an email sent to one of the accounts he'd used in his previous life, the same account he'd used last Friday to contact a certain man overseas. "Crow," Calvin muttered, saying the codename of the man who'd been named after a bird. He opened the email and read through it, and by the time he finished, he was faintly surprised, to say the least. The bus came to a stop, and Calvin got off before beginning the quiet walk toward his apartment

Breathing heavily, Calvin leaned against the wall of an alley in a completely different district from where he lived, one hand pressed against his chest as elemental energy swirled around his heart.At some point, he'd noticed the glow across the night sky caused by the flames disappear, but he didn't lower his guard because that only meant the flames had been extinguished and that the Masked Witch was probably done with whatever she'd been doing there.It didn't mean she'd left Dand City.If an S-rank elementalist as skilled as she was really wanted to conceal her presence, she could be right in front of Calvin, and he wouldn't notice her, so he was still wary.'Just what the hell was she doing there? Why were those A-rank elementalists after her?'Elementalists who'd reached that level wouldn't be ignorant of who the true powerhouses were. They should've known better than to get themselves into an altercation with the Masked Witch.'Or was

Calvin frowned slightly at the doctor’s words."What do you mean?" he asked.The doctor gently lifted Martha's arm before pointing toward a section of her forearm."Take a closer look here. The fine hairs covering this part of her skin are almost completely gone, and the outer layer of the skin shows signs of recent thermal exposure.The heat was intense enough to singe the hair and irritate the skin, but it wasn't sustained long enough to produce the kind of visible burns we'd normally expect."Calvin looked more closely before finally noticing the subtle difference."If that's the case, then why wasn't it noticed earlier?""The emergency department has to prioritise injuries according to what poses the greatest immediate danger," Rickey answered this time. "When your mother arrived, she was unconscious, and there was visible swelling on the back of her head, which strongly suggested a concussion.Head injuries always re